4. Mojžišova 18:2

Český ekumenický překlad

Také svým bratřím, pokolení Léviho, kmenu svého otce, dovolíš, aby přistupovali s tebou. Přidruží se k tobě a budou ti přisluhovat, kdežto ty a s tebou tvoji synové budete před stanem svědectví.

Parallel Translations

Bible kralická (1613)
Bratří také své, pokolení Léví, čeled otce svého připoj k sobě, ať jsou při tobě a posluhují tobě; ty pak a synové tvoji s tebou před stánkem svědectví sloužiti budete.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

joined unto thee: There is a fine paronomasia in the original. Levi is desired from lawah, to join, couple, associate; hence Moses says, the Levites yillawoo, "shall be joined," or associated, with the priests: they shall conjointly perform the sacred office, but the priests shall be principal, the Levites their associates or assistants. Numbers 18:4, Genesis 29:34

minister: Numbers 3:6-9, Numbers 8:19, Numbers 8:22

but thou: Numbers 3:10-13, Numbers 4:15, Numbers 16:40, Numbers 17:7, 1 Chronicles 16:39, 1 Chronicles 16:40, 2 Chronicles 30:16, Ezekiel 44:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 38:21 - tabernacle of testimony Numbers 16:9 - separated 2 Chronicles 24:6 - tabernacle 2 Chronicles 29:11 - the Lord Nehemiah 10:35 - General Acts 7:44 - the tabernacle

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And to thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father,.... For his father Amram was of that tribe, and so the Levites were his brethren, as he is directed to consider them; which might serve to conciliate their minds, and make them easy with respect to his enjoyment of the priesthood:

bring them with thee; into the court of the tabernacle, for further they might not go:

that they maybe joined unto thee: as their name of Levites signifies, persons joined and united to others, as they were to the priests: see reason of their patriarch's name Levi in Genesis 29:34;

and minister unto thee: be assisting to the priests in killing the sacrifices, receiving the blood, and flaying the beasts, and in other things about the sanctuary, Numbers 3:6;

but thou, and thy sons with thee, [shall minister] before the tabernacle of witness; which was the most holy place, where were the ark of the testimony or witness, and the tables of the covenant; and they might be said to minister before that, when they ministered in the holy place, which was before it, when they burned incense upon the altar of incense, ordered the shewbread, and trimmed the lamps of the candlestick, which none but the priests the sons of Aaron might do.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 18:2. Thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi - may be joined unto thee — There is a fine paronomasia, or play upon words, in the original. לוי Levi comes from the root לוה lavah, to join to, couple, associate: hence Moses says, the Levites, ילוו yillavu, shall be joined, or associated with the priests; they shall conjointly perform the whole of the sacred office, but the priests shall be principal, the Levites only their associates or assistants. For an explanation of many parts of this chapter, see the notes on several of the passages referred to in the margin.